Sales numbers are in from the Holidays and Sony’s Playstation 2 still dominated the season. The breakdown of console sales for Dec, 2006 were:
- Playstation2 with 1.2M sold
- Microsoft Xbox360 with 1.1M sold
- Nintendo Wii with 604K sold
- Playstation3 with 400K sold
The PS2 xmas sales are on top of approximately 100M units already in the market. The Xbox360 is still leading the next generation consoles with 10M units already in the market. The PS3 still hasn’t launched in Europe but Japanese sales have been strong than North America. We may end up with a split with Xbox360 leading in North America and PS3 leading in the rest of the world. Microsoft still has a big aces up its sleeve with the Halo3 launch in the new year though. Microsoft has also announced plans to go after the IPTV market and provide the ability to download shows via Xbox Live. It will be interesting to see the market develop in any case.